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Here's a history of our various felons, along with a few missed opportunities.....
I - walkwithcrowds (7-day version) II - none III - none IV - Quislet, Esq V - Rockhopper Lad (the first 24-hour version) VI - Rockhopper Lad VII - cleome VIII - Rockhopper Lad IX - Rockhopper Lad X - none XI - none XII - none XIII - Invisible Brainiac XIV - Invisible Brainiac XV - Invisible Brainiac XVI - Invisible Brainiac XVII - Invisible Brainiac XVIII - cleome XIX - cleome XX - cleome XXI - Jfposey XXII - Invisible Brainiac XXIII - jfposey XIV - Invisible Brainiac XV - PALADIN (eff YEAH!!!) XVI- Quislet, Esq. XVII - Invisible Brainiac XVIII - none XIX - none XX - Quislet, Esq. XXI - thoth lad XXII - Ann Hebistand XXIII - Quislet, Esq. XXIV - Invisible Brainiac XXV - Invisible Brainiac XXVI - Quislet, Esq. XXVII - thoth lad XXVIII - Quislet, Esq. XXIX - Eryk Davis Ester XXX - Invisible Brainiac XXXI - Invisible Brainiac XXXII - Ann Hebistand XXXIII - Invisible Brainiac XXXIV - Invisible Brainiac XXXV - none XXXVI - thoth lad XXXVII - Ann Hebistand XXXVIII - Invisible Brainiac XXXIX - thoth Lad XL - Invisible Brainiac XLI - thoth lad XLII - Ann Hebistand XLIII - thoth lad XLIV - thoth lad XLV - Ann Hebistand XLVI - Invisible Brainiac XLVII - Invisible Brainiac XLVIII - Invisible Brainiac
Foil Cover 25 slightly different themed editions that you ahve to kill all of Poly Bagged Be the last one, before we return for a collector's edition #1
Wolfman can't recall what the origin was going to be. However, that didn't stop there being a Perez-drawn panel in the History of the DC Universe, relating to his origin.
Originally Posted by Ann Hebistand
Originally Posted by Gaseous Lad
LOL
Yeah it just gets me that people were all in on him because he did ONE good run of something YEARS ago and don't critique anything else he does.
I hear ya, GL. Bendis's writing has been insipid and complacent for the better part of 20 years.
I tripped across something of his the other week. Needless to say it was a page with 20 panels, each with a character head, all continuing the same thought/sentence. Surely, an editor at some point, somewhere along the way would have had a word.
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
the Gold Lantern hyping up also violated the "show, don't tell" rule
I think we had to be told, as being shown would just be *too* awesome for us to cope with.
It would. It would take a near endless succession of character heads, revealing some of that origin to us word by word to build us up for such awesomeness. Fortunately, such a writer exists! Step forward Bendis Boy! Your power of decompression, will make the awesomeness bearable! (unlike the rest of the plot)
I wonder if anyone has ever attempted to explain the Bendis each-character=says-one-word-of-a-sentence phenomenon
is there always a telepath mind-linking them?
are their personalities just that interchangeable?
I remember reading a quote from him that when he was given the Ultimate Spider-Man gig he hung around a high school corridor (with the school's permission) and listened to teens excitedly talking to one another. That was what he used as the basis of his Spider-man stuff - and then I guess he never stopped.
In my own opinion what he heard wasn't kids finishing each others sentences so much as rudely interrupting each other to grab the attention. I was a teen once and yeah when excited you can forget to let someone finish, but is that a good thing? And all the time?
Well remembered Fickles. Sayle has done 4 series of Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar, on the radio. It's pretty good and probably available on some BBC podcast thing.
He's also done a thing where he goes on trains and...talks to people. While no doubt an interesting snapshot into the lives the editor thinks are interesting, it's considered treason in Britain to talk to people on public transport. It's only a matter of time before he's caught and rightly punished.
Small talk is indeed very American, at least based on my work experience.
Colleagues from other cultures tend to keep it to "how are you", with a short answer about their day. My American colleagues tend to take much more time with the small talk.
there are exceptions, of course.
and I can say that there are other cultures that also like to make small talk.
One of my funnest memories from train commuting is one morning where I was reading a comic and gradually became aware of spoken sounds in the background like "Wham", "Bang", "Boom". Coming out of my comic induced alternative reality I saw a teenage high school student in uniform grinning at me. I grinned back and promptly went back to my reading. If I had it over again the only thing I would do different is offer to let him read the comic. No new readers without sharing the love.
One of my funnest memories from train commuting is one morning where I was reading a comic and gradually became aware of spoken sounds in the background like "Wham", "Bang", "Boom". Coming out of my comic induced alternative reality I saw a teenage high school student in uniform grinning at me. I grinned back and promptly went back to my reading. If I had it over again the only thing I would do different is offer to let him read the comic. No new readers without sharing the love.
Let him read it?! And potentially diminish the value?! He can look at it when it's slabbed and not a moment before!
The secret of the Sinestro power ring revealed! Twist it left and it's an oregano dispenser. It's also made of a lovely after dinner cheese that replenishes from it's central battery. A battery that also bakes lovely bread.
The advanced version has three settings: Oregano, garlic and Parmesan. If you're a true master, you can dispense all at once in just the right amounts.
The advanced version has three settings: Oregano, garlic and Parmesan. If you're a true master, you can dispense all at once in just the right amounts.
I remember the multi page tribute to Geoff Johns in a DC comic, for thinking along those lines.
My local fish and chip shop is getting a refurb. I was passing the other day, and fancied some chips. The swing doors were open and the counter was gone. I can only hope this doesn't mean they're changing the oil. That's been there since I was a kid.
My local fish and chip shop is getting a refurb. I was passing the other day, and fancied some chips. The swing doors were open and the counter was gone. I can only hope this doesn't mean they're changing the oil. That's been there since I was a kid.
Yeah...
I read an article about this a few months ago, in the Guardian. What Thoth just described is happening all over Britain.
Traditionally made fish & chips should never go out of style!
I know a person who has his entire outlook shaped by what the Grauniad (open uk joke based on their terrible spelling) tells him. Anything out with that view is automatically wrong. A bit sad. Also an indicator that people were polarised by newsprint before social media was a thing.
My outlook is informed by a variety of views, of which the Guardian is only one. But, yes, I do know people like the one you just described. I'll even admit to having been dogmatic myself in my misspent youth, almost like a female version of Rik from The Young Ones.
Close-minded people make me angry. although I should pity them instead.
And no matter which political extreme they favor, they are all equally harmful to society. It's so absurd, it would be funny if it wasn't for the very real damage they cause.
A phrase which is also the title of a song by Metallica, whom I consider the most overrated of all the heavy metal bands. That they've achieved such levels of critical and commercial success makes me...well...sad.
Agreed, although sour cream donuts can be delicious when made right (FTR, the donut isn't filled with sour cream -- instead, the sour cream is folded into the dough mixture.)
A donut van is now a regular in our town centre, with the poorest selection, and amongst the worst tasting donuts I can recall having. All for supporting local business, but I have found a limit.
I remember hearing that The Thing was getting a title and for a moment thinking it would be the one from the horror movie, before I remembered the Fantastic,Four.
The Thing horror movie has become so iconic that it's hard to imagine today how out of step with the times it was in 1982, and how it was looked at like a complete failure. The special effects arguably look better today than the digital crap that replaced them.
Don't know if anyone watched the last season of True Detective, but they had an amazing homage to the iconic poster from The Thing (the one with the man in parka with a light beaming out of the hood)
Detective: All right! Who done it? Suspect 1:I did! Suspect 2: I did! Suspect 3: I did! Detective: You can't all have done it! Suspects: Well, we are an alien hive mind...
Did we? Let's see...comics hive-minds... not to be confused with H.I.V.E. ...
Madrox, the Multiple Man - Ugly early costume , that no number of quippy X-Facotr early issues will quite banish. Multiplex - Gave up being a Firestorm villain to open up a chain of cinemas. Not the best costume either. Big cirttter fought by the JL in their first annual. Made up of lots of human bodies. Icky, especially if you were on on the heel and got squished. The Schizoid Man - Opponent of the Ultimates, with a name ripped off from The Prisoner. Fodder for the Ultimates.
Nope, I'm still holding out to be a drone of Zazalla, The Queen Bee.
First Man I think, I think I am Therefore I am, I think
The Establishment Of course you are my bright little star I've miles and miles of files Pretty files of your forefather's fruit And now to suit our great computer You're magnetic ink
First Man I'm more than that I know I am At least, I think I must be
Inner Man There you go man Keep as cool as you can Face piles of trials with smiles It riles them to believe That you perceive the web they weave And keep on thinking free
It is. A student of the Lard Force must be ever aware of its ebbs and flows. It is a difficult path, fraught with danger and missteps. That was my reasoning as I nommed on some crisps last week, a yeah.
One day our personal AIs will flag people we see based on their personality. It will steer us through interactions, by warning us about topics they are likely to bring up, and how to avoid it happening.
Not quite the quote that the upcoming launches of Faux Fickles, Holo Hebistand and Artificial Annfie were looking for. But I'm sure one of those can just come up with quotes of their own.
So in all seriousness - I use it all the time to get a "jump start" on a draft of something, as it really helps especially for things like formal messaging, email or otherwise. I tend to hack the output to death with what I want rather than do revision after revision via the LLM, but for getting something started? It's a good tool.
"Kill, Baby, Kill" is an alternate title of a Mario Bava horror movie. "Operazione: Paura" is the original Italian title, which translates to "Operation: Fear." None of these titles accurately describes the movie, which is probably why it's one of Bava's more obscure works. I quite like it.
When their first album was released, it seemed like such a breath of fresh air -- a young, current band emulating the Cars and other childhood favorites of mine, and doing it well.
Then the lead singer drank too much diet soda and started admiring Bruce Springsteen. I hate Bruce Springsteen. Ergo, I hated the Killers second album. Then I started feeling maybe the first album wasn't as good as I thought it was, and that the lyrics were terrible. I gave both albums away, and I've never looked back.
Grabs shovel....grabs basin to filter the river...races half way down the street... Darn that Gaseous Lad! That's the 10th time this week I've fallen for that.
Poor innocent bystander cats don't want to come out their cat flaps in case they get caught up in the cross hissing.
Basically, it's my Ted, Alpha Paws of a very large territory, and a succession of others trying to take advantage when he's elsewhere.
A while ago I lifted Ted away from a conflict. That didn't scare off the other cat. Yesterday, I let him get on with it. Sure enough, the other cat fled rather than face his power paws. Natural order restored (I was keeping an eye out in case of real bother).
I made a video of our neighbor's cats "fighting". The younger one leaped on the older cat, possibly as a challenge. Older cat wriggled free, gave him the stink-eye, and waited until he was relaxed to jump on him and show him who's boss
Grabs shovel....grabs basin to filter the river...races half way down the street... Darn that Gaseous Lad! That's the 10th time this week I've fallen for that.
I made a video of our neighbor's cats "fighting". The younger one leaped on the older cat, possibly as a challenge. Older cat wriggled free, gave him the stink-eye, and waited until he was relaxed to jump on him and show him who's boss
Our squirrels in the back yard were doing that the other day.
Then one started trying to jump over the other one. But he (?) never quite made it.
Then they kind of laid on the lawn smoking cigarettes.
I made a video of our neighbor's cats "fighting". The younger one leaped on the older cat, possibly as a challenge. Older cat wriggled free, gave him the stink-eye, and waited until he was relaxed to jump on him and show him who's boss
Our squirrels in the back yard were doing that the other day.
Then one started trying to jump over the other one. But he (?) never quite made it.
Then they kind of laid on the lawn smoking cigarettes.
That was weird.
Mental note: Stop wearing squirrel suit when visiting Gaseous Lad.
They'd been huge here with Please, Disco and Actually. Back in the days of limited programming, and music order catalogues.
PSB were developing an electronic sound from that. It moved towards certain markets, at a time I was listening to, and more interested in, other things.
Looking back you see the craft, the nods and the knowledge as their sound took shape. At the time, there were fresher, newer, rawer to explore.
Fair enough, Thoth. I feel "Behaviour" was a beautiful eulogy to their more ironic and experimental early selves, and to the 80s overall. The explosion of colour and melody that was "Very" felt quite refreshing to me in the dour days of gangsta rap and grunge. It suggested a brighter alternative to what the 90s had been shaping up to be. That didn't happen until almost 20 years later, during the EDM era, which was the last time I cared about current pop music.
Our late '80s was a bright burst of acid house, psychedelic trance loads of remixes and indy dance. PSB worked with some of the same people. But it seemed that by the time they'd done that, things had already moved on. Not quite the stage that you'd get some groups mining EDM in their songs regardless of how unsuitable (see also rap).
I've a cheek to almost type, possibly with guest vocals from Liza Minnelli, when KLF had Tammy Wynette. But things at the time, aren't often as they seemed.
My uncle has a story, he was at a club... and grandma came in, forced the DJ to stop playing, and had the DJ announce: "(uncle's name), your mom says you have to come home now!"
My uncle has a story, he was at a club... and grandma came in, forced the DJ to stop playing, and had the DJ announce: "(uncle's name), your mom says you have to come home now!"
Oh, the shame. My first Saturday haunts were all a couple of minutes walking distance from where I lived. So, could have happened. My folks trusted me to not fall on my face too much, so I got left in peace.
Originally Posted by Gaseous Lad
Those kinds of clubs always heightened my anxiety and I could never get comfortable in places like those, so I stood out like a sore thumb.
I met a lot of relaxed, welcoming folks, which took the edge off of any social anxiety. There was quite a range of things people were interested in, lots of different dress senses and people who didn't bother. Not the same in some of my other social circles at the time, which were a bit more constrained and snooty.
I think the clubs that friends dragged me to at the time were more in line with that last category.
Mainly just snooty and judgy.
It also didn't help that I've never had any understanding of how to move my body through space without looking like a dork.
Fortunately, most of the music at the time didn't require anyone to be able to dance. Actually (not just a PSB album), depending on the venue, people did what they liked.
Things like Punk, Ska, 2 Tone were had a bad reputation, and seemed to be really aggressive to li'l thoth. Before the press had heavy metal and rap to kick about. It was later on, at festivals, I got to enjoy some of it. A couple of clubs had a very mixed bag, something for everyone which was good too.
I used to use it to remember birthdays. but meh, birthday calendar is better
I also come from a culture where big groups - and preserving "harmony" within them - is important. how toxic! why should I have to hang out with a group of 30, where I only really like 5, am ok with 20, and despise the last 5
I'd hope so. I mean Twitter and FB have a (particularly bad) function in today's society in connecting people, but you can't have any lengthy conversation without it becoming quickly unreadable. And its a shame that those sites have become the "easy button" for online interaction, given the amount of bots on the sites.
Anyone new here gets a treasure trove of topics to delve through. FB and others are far more immediate. I would either feel I had to keep up or not bother. So, I've not bothered.
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